Okay, but on the plus side we’re hardly talking about the Epstein files so I think we can chalk this up as a win for America.

Man, age verification can’t come soon enough. I cannot imagine how much better the internet would be without these 12 year old edge lord/stupidity posts.

I don’t think I’ve ever watched a streamer before and would happily change that to watch this.

Optics aren’t great and it’s not like he has qualified people helping but honestly, I still think I want Donald as far away from a problem as possible just so he can’t make it even worse.

Hmmm, I could’ve sworn my Firefox had ublock origin on windows but I might’ve screwed something up etc.

I’m not one to look a gift horse in the mouth though!

I used Firefox on windows with as much anti as stuff as I could find but they still snuck through.

I’m okay considering it a Linux miracle.

My favourite unexpected bonus from switching to Linux has been a completely ad free youtube experience. Not entirely sure why this magic is happening but I love it.

It’s adorable that you think nonsensical complaints in the depths of the comment section of a day old post are winning hearts and minds.

Not enough such that I’d comment on a post, not get a reply, post again five hours later, then again a couple hours later.

I dunno, maybe this just hit too close to home or something but you’re clearly stewing on it. Hope all is well!

You are welcome to contribute to the fediverse by making your own, non stupid ass posts!

For vast swathes of humanity, it’s better than ever before.

I apologize if that came across as a quantity thing. I mean as proportions. (Though obviously true quantity wise as well.)

The percentage of people in extreme poverty, percentage of dead children etc, life has, by almost every conceivable metric has improved greatly for the overwhelming majority.

Again, I strongly recommend Hans Rosling’s Factfulness, it’s a wild eye opener.

You have a lot of time on your hands eh?

Do you honestly think your life would be better if you traded your birth nowadays and were instead born in France in the mid 1700s?

Sorry, benighted means intellectually unenlightened. Think of it as a term meaning ignorant, with some other connotations but that’ll suffice.

most of the west is indeed a capitalist hellscape

Yeah, that’s just a silly take.

If there’s no frame or context, then anywhere with anything that you dislike in any way is a hellscape, e.g., Taylor Swift’s life is a hellscape because she can’t go into a casual restaurant without being hassled.

If you live better than almost anyone who has ever lived, like Swift does, complaining about living in a hellscape is pretty silly.

Do you think if you post enough reactionary nonsense your boss is gonna give you a raise or something?

I mean, breathing is a pretty essential part of it too.

But, just because I breathe doesn’t mean I’m in a capitalist hellhole.

If you really think our pampered lives are hellholes, then you should read more about the rest of the world and/or history. To anyone with a speck of knowledge though, this sort of take just makes us sound like a toddler complaining how everything is unfair because she has to brush her teeth before bed. (A complaint I heard issued while babysitting my friends’ furiously adorable 3 year old with her mouth full of toothpaste. It took everything I had to not smile and laugh.)

the only option in your mind is that someone’s hoping for remuneration

Do you think if you post enough reactionary nonsense your boss is gonna give you a raise or something?

Maybe read a bit more closely you silly Billy!

You’ve kind of just written the same basic misunderstanding repeatedly, so I’ll just answer here.

The point, which you’re missing, is that when we complain in ways that make us sound like benighted children, it makes it hard for anyone to take actual critiques seriously.

There are absolutely valid critiques, important and fucking essential critiques. **But ** claiming you live in a capitalist hellscape while you live a life of luxury unimaginaeable to most humans who have ever lived, well, that makes you, and by extension the Left, sound, at best, like an ignorant child.

Consider how dumb it sounds when Republicans claim that any climate action is an attack on American Freedoms etc. It sounds stupid and makes you discredit any sort of actual critique about some perhaps ineffective climate mitigation etc.

Do you really know so few people with a different viewpoint that the only option in your mind is that someone’s hoping for remuneration? Kinda like how Republicans insist everyone protesting ICE is a paid protestor.

But, if you’re concerned, I work in a non profit and get paid just fine. If money were an issue, I’d work in the private sector.

So that’s how silly I sound when I say that.

Regardless of how grumpy an old man I am, I should stop saying that.